Dessert spoon

[4] However, even when approximated, its use was discouraged: "Inasmuch as spoons vary greatly in capacity, and from their form are unfit for use in the dosage of medicine, it is desirable... to be measured with a suitable medicine measure.

"[5] In the United States and pre-1824 England, the fluid ounce was ⁠1/128⁠ of a Queen Anne wine gallon (which was defined as exactly 231 cubic inches) thus making the dessert-spoon approximately 7.39 ml.

The post-1824 (British) imperial Apothecaries' dessert-spoon was also ⁠1/4⁠ fluid ounce, but the ounce in question was ⁠1/160⁠ of an imperial gallon, approximately 277.4 cubic inches, yielding a dessert-spoon of approximately 7.10 ml.

In pharmaceutical Latin, the Apothecaries' dessert-spoon is known as cochleare medium, abbreviated as cochl.

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